NS Cliches: Rebooted

by **Grotesque Spore Creatures** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:50 pm

Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:Oh no, not this discussion.

I’m gonna distract everyone with this: when I read military factbooks, most of the time those images don’t show up, like, the links are broken or something.

Or people putting way too many images in said factbooks

by **Netherlands Australia** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:56 pm

Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:Oh no, not this discussion.

I’m gonna distract everyone with this: when I read military factbooks, most of the time those images don’t show up, like, the links are broken or something.

On a similar note: super advanced generic FT tanks/spaceships/soldiers in fact books, with nothing more than a name and an image that is 100% oversized.

by **Laka Strolistandiler** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:04 pm

Netherlands Australia wrote:
Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:Oh no, not this discussion.

I’m gonna distract everyone with this: when I read military factbooks, most of the time those images don’t show up, like, the links are broken or something.

On a similar note: super advanced generic FT tanks/spaceships/soldiers in fact books, with nothing more than a name and an image that is 100% oversized.

Sometimes even without a name…

by **Valentine Z** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:06 pm

If something doesn't have a name, feel free to call it "Project Magical Pinkie Cutie Rainbow."

by **Netherlands Australia** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:08 pm

Valentine Z wrote:If something doesn't have a name, feel free to call it "Project Magical Pinkie Cutie Rainbow."

Nah, just label it "[REDACTED]" to make it seem cool and badass, when in reality it is indeed no more threatening than Project Magical Pinkie Cutie Rainbow

by **Laka Strolistandiler** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:09 pm

Valentine Z wrote:If something doesn't have a name, feel free to call it "Project Magical Pinkie Cutie Rainbow."

Actually that’s a pretty good idea… Imma name my next space battleship project when I will totally finish it “Princess Bubblegum” because I can

by **Grotesque Spore Creatures** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:20 pm

I mean, you can name something "The Rainbow Spreader of Joy" to deceive your foes even though they most likely won't fall for it because it sounds too sugary

by **Das Kaiserliche Vaterland** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:07 pm

Grotesque Spore Creatures wrote:
Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:Oh no, not this discussion.

I’m gonna distract everyone with this: when I read military factbooks, most of the time those images don’t show up, like, the links are broken or something.

Or people putting way too many images in said factbooks

This is exactly what The Archetypal Future Tech Space Empire is made for.

Netherlands Australia wrote:
Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:Oh no, not this discussion.

I’m gonna distract everyone with this: when I read military factbooks, most of the time those images don’t show up, like, the links are broken or something.

On a similar note: super advanced generic FT tanks/spaceships/soldiers in fact books, with nothing more than a name and an image that is 100% oversized.

Exactly what The Archetypal Future Tech Space Empire is all about since I see every single Factbook about everybody’s military being an obnoxious amalgamation of flashy light emitting diodes in their headsets and a least descriptive description of the image.

12 March 2022

Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:
Grotesque Spore Creatures wrote:Or people putting way too many images in said factbooks

This is exactly what The Archetypal Future Tech Space Empire is made for.

Netherlands Australia wrote:On a similar note: super advanced generic FT tanks/spaceships/soldiers in fact books, with nothing more than a name and an image that is 100% oversized.

Exactly what The Archetypal Future Tech Space Empire is all about since I see every single Factbook about everybody’s military being an obnoxious amalgamation of flashy light emitting diodes in their headsets and a least descriptive description of the image.

It's beautiful. I love it.

by **Das Kaiserliche Vaterland** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:29 pm

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:
Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:This is exactly what The Archetypal Future Tech Space Empire is made for.

Exactly what The Archetypal Future Tech Space Empire is all about since I see every single Factbook about everybody’s military being an obnoxious amalgamation of flashy light emitting diodes in their headsets and a least descriptive description of the image.

It's beautiful. I love it.

It’s gonna be even more beautiful when one of those images fail to load and all you see is this

by **Vaspelia** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:43 pm

speaking of images
i feel that i cannot advance on writing my factbooks. Because i feel i need graphics, logos and pictures passed through Photomosh to make an impression which i would be satisfied with.

by **Valentine Z** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:51 pm

Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:
Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:It's beautiful. I love it.

It’s gonna be even more beautiful when one of those images fail to load and all you see is this

Not as bad as this:

by **Grotesque Spore Creatures** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:56 pm

Vaspelia wrote:speaking of images
i feel that i cannot advance on writing my factbooks. Because i feel i need graphics, logos and pictures passed through Photomosh to make an impression which i would be satisfied with.

I can't advance because I approach creative roadblocks every hour

Valentine Z wrote:
Das Kaiserliche Vaterland wrote:It’s gonna be even more beautiful when one of those images fail to load and all you see is this

Not as bad as this:

True...

12 March 2022

Vaspelia wrote:speaking of images
i feel that i cannot advance on writing my factbooks. Because i feel i need graphics, logos and pictures passed through Photomosh to make an impression which i would be satisfied with.

You don't need fancy graphics; in fact, having well-written factbooks is at least as important as aesthetic. I use Wiki-style templates for my factbooks, but a lot of my dispatches have almost zero formatting because they're just straight-up prose. You don't have to have an unorthodox, flawless, picture-heavy factbook for it to be good quality.

by **Valentine Z** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:05 pm

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:
Vaspelia wrote:speaking of images
i feel that i cannot advance on writing my factbooks. Because i feel i need graphics, logos and pictures passed through Photomosh to make an impression which i would be satisfied with.

You don't need fancy graphics; in fact, having well-written factbooks is at least as important as aesthetic. I use Wiki-style templates for my factbooks, but a lot of my dispatches have almost zero formatting because they're just straight-up prose. You don't have to have an unorthodox, flawless, picture-heavy factbook for it to be good quality.

That, and just strike a balance of both. I would not mind either a word-heavy factbook, or a picture-heavy one, as long as there is effort put into them. ♥

Which is why I have The Sixty in F&NI forums despite the initial protests, because it's a lot of words. It looks nicer on the forums than on the factbooks.

12 March 2022

Valentine Z wrote:
Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:You don't need fancy graphics; in fact, having well-written factbooks is at least as important as aesthetic. I use Wiki-style templates for my factbooks, but a lot of my dispatches have almost zero formatting because they're just straight-up prose. You don't have to have an unorthodox, flawless, picture-heavy factbook for it to be good quality.

That, and just strike a balance of both. I would not mind either a word-heavy factbook, or a picture-heavy one, as long as there is effort into them. ♥

by **Socialist Macronesia** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:39 pm

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:
Vaspelia wrote:speaking of images
i feel that i cannot advance on writing my factbooks. Because i feel i need graphics, logos and pictures passed through Photomosh to make an impression which i would be satisfied with.

You don't need fancy graphics; in fact, having well-written factbooks is at least as important as aesthetic. I use Wiki-style templates for my factbooks, but a lot of my dispatches have almost zero formatting because they're just straight-up prose. You don't have to have an unorthodox, flawless, picture-heavy factbook for it to be good quality.

it doesn't have to be picture heavy or well-formatted but you do need to have some of that if you want people to take you seriously. don't assume otherwise. well-formatted junk is often received better than no-formatting gold because people here don't give a damn about writing quality if your lore looks good enough.

okay this is a bit of an un-cliche but why the fuck are there like no .44s in anyone's army or police

i understand that they're big, bulky, low in capacity, high in recoil and generally impractical for use in any modern combat situation but even putting dirty harry aside, the 44 is cooler than the desert eagle

same with literally any 9mm submachine gun over the kriss vector or the ar-18 over the m-16/m4/hk416

by **South Americanastan** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:07 pm

Socialist Macronesia wrote:
Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:You don't need fancy graphics; in fact, having well-written factbooks is at least as important as aesthetic. I use Wiki-style templates for my factbooks, but a lot of my dispatches have almost zero formatting because they're just straight-up prose. You don't have to have an unorthodox, flawless, picture-heavy factbook for it to be good quality.

it doesn't have to be picture heavy or well-formatted but you do need to have some of that if you want people to take you seriously. don't assume otherwise. well-formatted junk is often received better than no-formatting gold because people here don't give a damn about writing quality if your lore looks good enough.

okay this is a bit of an un-cliche but why the fuck are there like no .44s in anyone's army or police

i understand that they're big, bulky, low in capacity, high in recoil and generally impractical for use in any modern combat situation but even putting dirty harry aside, the 44 is cooler than the desert eagle

same with literally any 9mm submachine gun over the kriss vector or the ar-18 over the m-16/m4/hk416

Probably because of how overshadowed it is. .44 is just below .45 ACP, which is very possibly the most famous caliber of the last century and a quarter. .44 magnum is equally famous, but would require a lot of work to figure out a way to put it into a normal pistol, unless you want to sacrifice your wrists to Chesty Puller, God of Crayons and Marines, along with John Browning, God of Handguns. A revolver is very impractical as a standard issue weapon in the modern day, so .44 just doesn't have a place in modern warfare.

by **Socialist Macronesia** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:33 pm

South Americanastan wrote:
Socialist Macronesia wrote:
it doesn't have to be picture heavy or well-formatted but you do need to have some of that if you want people to take you seriously. don't assume otherwise. well-formatted junk is often received better than no-formatting gold because people here don't give a damn about writing quality if your lore looks good enough.

okay this is a bit of an un-cliche but why the fuck are there like no .44s in anyone's army or police

i understand that they're big, bulky, low in capacity, high in recoil and generally impractical for use in any modern combat situation but even putting dirty harry aside, the 44 is cooler than the desert eagle

same with literally any 9mm submachine gun over the kriss vector or the ar-18 over the m-16/m4/hk416

Probably because of how overshadowed it is. .44 is just below .45 ACP, which is very possibly the most famous caliber of the last century and a quarter. .44 magnum is equally famous, but would require a lot of work to figure out a way to put it into a normal pistol, unless you want to sacrifice your wrists to Chesty Puller, God of Crayons and Marines, along with John Browning, God of Handguns. A revolver is very impractical as a standard issue weapon in the modern day, so .44 just doesn't have a place in modern warfare.

revolvers aren't impractical in the modern day, though. revolvers are outclassed in the capacity and ease of reloading of modern semi auto pistols, but they make up for it in power and reliability. typical .45 acp gets about 355 ft-lbs of force. .44 magnum gets over a thousand.

and besides, yeah, it's impractical, but... sometimes coolness comes before accuracy. everyone's trying to be the most realistic and "tactically sound" military on this site but they're never willing to step outside of that to have fun. i think that's a real cliche here. people who are trying to be right, not trying to have a good time. that's why ii and nsg have really gone down, they don't want to have fun, they want to exert their believed dominance over everyone else. it's not about winning anything; it's about actually having a good time here, and not getting riled up over everything. nsg is inherently that, though, and ii has drifted towards that recently with an influx of summerposters who think this game is something that they can "win." no one goal fits everyone. some people might want to write. some people might want to win a couple battles. some people might just want to hang out with like-minded people. any of those is fine. but it's when you try to apply your personally crafted and moulded goals to somebody else that this site stops being fun and starts being a research project.

...i think i may have gotten off track. just a little.

by **Las Palmeras** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:42 pm

Socialist Macronesia wrote:okay this is a bit of an un-cliche but why the fuck are there like no .44s in anyone's army or police

i understand that they're big, bulky, low in capacity, high in recoil and generally impractical for use in any modern combat situation but even putting dirty harry aside, the 44 is cooler than the desert eagle

Las Palmeras has been retconned hard and it's no longer set in the 1980s or near Miami.

Maybe you can ask SP/Frisco to make a spinoff puppet or character armed with a Charter Arms Bulldog that chases around a serial killer while synth music plays in the background.

by **Frisco Commonwealth** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:49 pm

Las Palmeras wrote:
Socialist Macronesia wrote:okay this is a bit of an un-cliche but why the fuck are there like no .44s in anyone's army or police

i understand that they're big, bulky, low in capacity, high in recoil and generally impractical for use in any modern combat situation but even putting dirty harry aside, the 44 is cooler than the desert eagle

Las Palmeras has been retconned hard and it's no longer set in the 1980s or near Miami.

Maybe you can ask SP/Frisco to make a spinoff puppet or character armed with a Charter Arms Bulldog that chases around a serial killer while synth music plays in the background.

Maybe

by **Las Palmeras** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:02 pm

Frisco Commonwealth wrote:
Maybe

Makes one wonder which of Frisco Commonwealth's characters are most likely to criticize somebody's choice of aftershave.

by **Gandoor** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:04 pm

Can people's styles of posting be clichés?

12 March 2022

Gandoor wrote:Can people's styles of posting be clichés?

Yes I'm talking about a certain user who always makes long-winding and confusing posts that constantly repeats themselves over and over who's name rhymes with Breater Biami Bores.

Very much so. Everyone has their own writing style derived from several factors such as vocabulary size, syntax, English proficiency, their particular dialect and idiolect, the particular tone they use (whether intentionally or unintentionally), and writing skill. We probably all have writing styles with unique markers that serve as fingerprints of sorts.

Now, before I sound smarter than I likely am in actuality, I will say there are patterns in everybody's writing that we'd pick up on were we to analyze them. Perhaps we pick up on them subconsciously; who knows.

by **Hispida** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:18 pm

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:
Gandoor wrote:Can people's styles of posting be clichés?

Yes I'm talking about a certain user who always makes long-winding and confusing posts that constantly repeats themselves over and over who's name rhymes with Breater Biami Bores.

Very much so. Everyone has their own writing style derived from several factors such as vocabulary size, syntax, English proficiency, their particular dialect and idiolect, the particular tone they use (whether intentionally or unintentionally), and writing skill. We probably all have writing styles with unique markers that serve as fingerprints of sorts.

Now, before I sound smarter than I likely am in actuality, I will say there are patterns in everybody's writing that we'd pick up on were we to analyze them. Perhaps we pick up on them subconsciously; who knows.

I fuckin' hate people who post like

AN's blah blah blah: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

My reaction to AN's blah blah blah: Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

I can't stand it.

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